In reply to lets be real.

Don't be ridiculous. You cannot change a word in a song you had nothing to with and then claim credit that's selfish and inconsiderate.
It is a matter of opinion whether Beyonce has been in the company of genius or not, it would depend what you mean by genius. Whitney Houston did interpret songs that were written by other people very well because that was her job, she was a singer. She made millions of money from just singing and not hijacking songwriters of their due credit. If you do not know the work that is involved in composing a song, melody and key and wording you will never understand the fundamental error in creative bullying that goes on these days in music. It's violent, horrific and quite frankly it is about time some of us tackled it head on!
Dolly Parton deserves ALL credit AND MONEY that she gets from "I will Always love you" because IT IS HER SONG, SHE WROTE IT, NOT A CO-WRITE, SHE WROTE IT!
No one is saying Beyonce is stupid, what I'm saying is it is WRONG to force credit for a song you had nothing to do with, and there should be legal measures put in place to prohibit PERFORMING ARTISTS from bullying songwriters into giving them credit for things they did not do.
In 2007, the song "Listen" from the motion picture "dreamgirls" was nominated for an Oscar for best original song, but Beyonce was not included in the list of nominees because "she had the least to do with writing the song", which is euphemism for SHE DID NOT WRITE IT!
The law needs to protect us REAL SONGWRITERS from greedy people like Beyonce who are not satified with huge loads of money they already get that they neeed to swindle out more money from songwriters like me for shit.